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Richard & Judy is one of the top-ranked chat shows in the UK. When they started to run a reading club, sales through bookstores surged, particularly when WH Smiths and Waterstones threw their promotional efforts behind them. Since then a number of similar schemes have been launched, disproving the theory that people no longer read. In the case of Richard & Judy, the books are short-listed by a third-party company and then members of the public give their opinions on TV. Previous years have seen Booker prize short-lists such as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas alongside unknown Afghan novelists.
One side-effect of this is the success of fine novels such as Kate Morton’s The House at Riverton, published by Pan Macmillan. This has allowed first novelists to gain valuable exposure for fine novels that would otherwise disappear. Kate Morton is an Australian and this is her first novel.
The House at Riverton opens with a dream, of events that occurred in 1924, but seen from nearly seventy-five years later. Because it is a dream, the events are untrue, the significance of which is not immediately clear to the reader.
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